Hey it's halloween, everybody should shit their pants - ilx horror crew top tens.

wait are you talking that vampire movie? that was vaguely ok, but not one i would bother to seek out.

think he's talking about sinister not daybreakers but I've been wrong before

Yeah I was talking about Sinister, I'm not sure if it's out yet, based on a Stephan King short story.

stephan king, a little known greek horror scribe of the early 1900s

haha

HA!!

and his well-known post-apocalyptic novel "The Strand"

Has anyone watched any of thesePhilippine horror films

Noticed that "Amer" is virtually torrent proof. Keep getting "American Horror Story."

I just found one by googling "amer 2009 torrent " haven't tried it yet, but there are a few.

Watched The Oregonian last night. Interesting, but kind of missed the mark for me.

i kinda dug Deadgirl's Gus Vant Sant-esque pretty teen angst vibe, but i don't think i believed anyone's behavior/decisions in it whatsoever.

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watched 'deadgirl' las night and this hits the nail on the head. agree with those who said they had an interesting idea but executed it badly.

Just watched the Fright Night remake. Fun and goofy and allows for a couple of surprisingly nice moments in the midst of the mayhem. Effects were godawful, though, but such is the curse of the CGI age. Also, very dim looking, at least on the DVD I watched--a consequence of being shot for 3D?

If anything it should be brighter. If it looks dim without 3D glasses then it would have been impossible to see with them on

Well, the Slant review says it was "post-converted 3D," so I was wrong about what I said above about it being shot that way.

That's funny, I thought it looked pretty dim on DVD, too. I was wondering if that was just because it was set almost entirely at night, and maybe the contrast doesn't pop as well at home?

From what I remember, Colin Ferrell's sexy thrust was about the only enduring thing to take away from the remake. No small element, tho.

Or maybe it was dark to hide the shittiness of the cgi.

Man, did not like "V/H/S/." A bunch of good ideas, none taken advantage of to any real degree of satisfaction. Reminded me of, I dunno, "Tales from the Dark Side," the movie, but done indie and hand-held.

Not only am I effing sick of that whole grainy, hand held "indie" aesthetic in horror movies, I mostly became sick of it just from watching the trailers for these movies, not the movies themselves.

i enjoyed the first v/h/s short alot and the last one ok (not the wraparound), the second and fourth? (the skype one) had potential but didn't work for me really, the third one was straight garbage. i'm a pretty big sucker for found footage type things but found myself very happy they were all brief. considering the popularity of found footage horror and the inexpense of it i'm kinda amazed no tv channel has done their own esp since this is the kind of thing tv could pull off and not be crippled from the get go by broadcast standards the way they usually are when tv attempts horror. considering how great ghostwatch was twenty years ago it's seem like a gimme for syfy or fox.

Prince of Darkness - John Carpenter's final wave to fans before sinking into mediocrity.

this was much better than I remembered it. I think They Live! is a cut above mediocre tho

Watched Lovely Molly last night and liked it quite a bit. for people who get turned off by handheld cam stuff - soldier through the intro, the movie only uses the hand cam occasionally.

I'm glad to hear you liked Lovely Molly, I enjoyed how far it went in it's theme. The deer scene was gut turning and scary! We watched Apartment 143 last night, I dunno, maybe I'm getting tired of handheld cam horror ghost stories. I enjoy the cast, but I told Tera at the beginning that I'm going to be pissed if it's the daughter, and then big shocker. I loved all three Paranormal Activities, but it's wearing thin now.

Prince of Darkness - John Carpenter's final wave to fans before sinking into mediocrity.

Crazy talk. In the Mouth of Madness is great. Both of his "Masters of Horror" episodes were good too.

In other news, Paranormal Activity 4 was a let-down, the weakest in the series, but at least it has a good last couple minutes.

In still other news, I watched Human Centipede 2 and it was actually better than expected. Great casting, b&w photography, and sound design. Last 30 minutes have nowhere to go but into the crapper but up until then it had potential.

Yeah I might even like In The Mouth better than They Live and Prince O' D.

Watching In the Mouth of Madness on the screen was terrifying!!

never seen it, will get around to it

Huh, "Kill List" is like "The Wicker Man" crossed with "A Serbian Film" (though nowhere near as gross as the latter).

Ah, sorry, They Live! came out a year or two after Prince of Darkness, didn't it? I certainly don't love it, but, yeah, it is above mediocre. I remember not liking In the Mouth of Madness, but that's all I do remember. I need to revisit.

trying to figure out what exactly made Carpenter go off the rails. I mean, Memoirs of an Invisible Man? what was he thinking?

This is undoubtedly the kind of thing I should feel embarrassed about admitting, but I actually rewatched Memoirs for the first time since it was new a few years back and was surprised how much I enjoyed it.

word! Mouth of Madness is one of my favorite Carpenter films! Haven't seen his Masters of Horror efforts though, but if they're better than shit like Ghosts of Mars I assume I'll enjoy them.

I don't think They Live! should be taken as a serious horror film. It's more of a satire w/ scares and action IMO.

yeah, it's closer in tone to Big Trouble

the only Masters of Horror one I watched was this one, which was ridiculous but not bad

Well at least Tobe Hooper is getting work.

Village of the Damned was the one where Carpenter went off the rails

In The Mouth of Madness is a well-directed movie and no one would suspect that Carpenter had lost it from watching it, but the plot doesn't work

Weather permitting, I'm planning on an Alien/The Thing (Carpenter) double-bill Wednesday night--didn't they finish one-two in our poll? On the weekend, I'm seeing Romero (who, I didn't realize, has been living in Toronto for the past eight years) introduce Night of the Living Dead.

They did indeed, clemenza.

Any of you horror freaks got any suggestions for some last minute soundtrack downloading? DJing a krautrock & horror night on the 'ween itself. So far I've got Possession, Valerie, Hausu, Suspiria, All the Colours of the Dark, Bollywood Bloodbath and some miscellaneous Fulci...

Krzysztof Komeda!

Carpenter went downhill for much the same reason Romero did: sort of an eyes bigger than his stomach thing, where the stories they wanted to tell were much bigger than the budgets they had to work with. Both those guys worked much better with imposed limitations. Also, a lot of later Carpenter flicks really needed another run at the script, but it's almost as if the movies had to go forward before they were really ready to go. Hence sort of half-told movies like "Prince of Darkness," "Mouth of Madness" and "They Live.," "Escape from LA," et al.

Komeda, of course! Cheers, Josh.

Pino Donaggio always a good choice

I had to look him up - some good films on his roster, any in particular you'd recommend soundtrack-wise?

Carrie is my favorite! Plus there's the "they're all going to laugh at you" track.

The Howling and Don't Look Now are the other ones I have, but I have to say The Howling is more horrory than Don't Look Now iirc.

Fabio Frizzi's The Beyond has a few nice cheesy creepy tracks.

this one is great http://www.discogs.com/Giallos-Flame-House-At-The-Edge-Of-The-Dark/release/1237925

Yeah, Jacob, I picked a couple of tracks from The Beyond from the Fulci soundcloud, need to choose a few more though, I reckon. http://soundcloud.com/luciofulci

Just realised La Lech actually started a whole thread for this topic a while ago, but oh well, conversation is here now.

i just consulted that thread to jog my memory -- shoulda just linked!